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HAWORTH, Bobs Cogill

Born

Queenstown, South Africa, 1900

Died

Toronto, Ontario, 1988

Biography synopsis

Barbara Zema Warbain Haworth "Bobs" (née Cogill) studied at the Royal College of Art, London, England with Rothenstein, Tristram and Dora M. Billington. She received the degree of A.R.C.A. from the University of London and moved to Toronto in 1923. She was assigned to record activities of the Canadian Armed Forces in British Columbia during World War II and design silkscreen prints for the National Gallery of Canada. She taught ceramics at the Toronto Central Technical School and lectured at the University of Toronto. She was a member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, the Canadian Group of Painters, the Royal Canadian Academy (A.R.C.A.,1948), the Ontario Society of Artists, and was Honorary President of the Canadian Guild of Potters. She illustrated Marius Barbeau's "Kingdom of the Saguenay" (1936) with Peter Haworth, and she illustrated the book "Habitant Merchant."

Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition.: (Montreal, November 21, 1935) "Art Gallery Scene of R.C.A. Exhibition. Paintings and Other Works from Various Canadian Points Total 444. Much Good Portraiture." Gazette (Montreal) November 23, 1935. p.19. Full-text pdf

Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (, 1936) Fred H. Brigden. "The Fifty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts." Royal Architectural Institute of Canada December 1936. 13.12: pp.216-223. Full-text pdf

Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, November 18, 1937) "Royal Canadian Academy Show is Opened at Art Association. Portraiture Represented by Good Examples and Landscapes as Usual Predominate." Gazette (Montreal) November 19, 1937. p.12. Full-text pdf